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Citation
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Judgment date
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| December 2025 |
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Court held cooperative society actions reviewable, quashed chair’s unilateral suspensions and ordered Registrar to convene SGM to reconstitute Board.
Judicial review – Cooperative societies – Decisions of registered societies and actions of their officers amenable to review – Unilateral suspensions and one‑person resolutions without quorum or bye‑law authority unlawful – Registrar’s duty to restore lawful governance – Quashing and setting aside of invalid resolutions and orders to convene Special General Meeting to reconstitute Board.
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31 December 2025 |
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Court expunged adverse judicial characterisation of the applicant as error apparent on the face of the record.
Civil procedure – Review under Section 82 CPA and Order 46 R.1 – Error apparent on the face of the record – Expungement of unnecessary adverse judicial remarks – Protection of reputation and prevention of prejudice to public officer.
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24 December 2025 |
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Application for broad discovery dismissed as a fishing expedition; applicants must prove employment and entitlements in their suit.
Civil procedure—discovery and inspection—requirements for ordering discovery (relevance, non-privilege, possession/control, futile voluntary attempts)—fishing expedition doctrine—applicant’s burden to prove employment and entitlements.
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23 December 2025 |
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The appeal is dismissed: the appellant breached the carriage contract, causing loss and damages to the respondent.
Contract of carriage; bailment; carrier liability for loss and delay; under‑declaration to customs; alteration of bill of lading; agency and lifting the corporate veil; proof of special damages; award of general damages.
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22 December 2025 |
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Leave to appeal refused where applicants benefited from a consent order and failed to show arguable grounds or vitiating factors.
Civil procedure — Leave to appeal — Test for grant of leave — Consent orders — Whether a party who has benefited from a consent order may later challenge it absent vitiating factors — Doctrine of approbate and reprobate — Abuse of court process.
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22 December 2025 |
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A petition filed outside the five‑day statutory period without applying for extension is incompetent and dismissed.
Election law — jurisdictional and strict five‑day filing period for appeals to High Court from Electoral Commission — social media copy not official delivery — failure to apply for extension or validation fatal to competence.
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22 December 2025 |
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Stay refused: judicial review orders were self-executing and applicant failed to show irreparable harm or triable issues.
Judicial review — prerogative orders — self-executing declarations — stay of execution — requirements for stay (notice, timeliness, irreparable harm, security, balance of convenience) — enforcement of electoral-related orders.
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22 December 2025 |
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The applicant’s prompt application led the court to set aside an ex parte decree and allow a late reply, with costs to respondents.
Civil procedure — Setting aside ex parte decree — Order 9 Rule 27 — Sufficient cause: negligence of counsel and settlement negotiations — Enlargement of time to file affidavit — Order 51 Rule 6; Section 96 Civil Procedure Act — Exercise of discretion in interest of justice — Costs to successful respondent assessed later.
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22 December 2025 |
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Electoral Commission properly denominated candidate whose mature-age certificate had expired; petition dismissed; parties bear own costs.
Electoral law – jurisdiction of Electoral Commission to adjudicate nomination disputes; validity and expiry of Mature Age/Aptitude Test certificates; NCHE equivalence versus underlying qualification validity; requirement to raise nomination defects before election; burden of proof in election petitions.
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21 December 2025 |
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Whether the respondent lawfully lodged a caveat without fair hearing and whether judicial review should quash it.
Judicial review — Administrative law — Caveat lodged by Registrar under Registration of Titles Act s.154(a) — Ultra vires, procedural impropriety and irrationality — Certiorari, mandamus, permanent injunction, damages and costs.
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18 December 2025 |
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Applicants failed to establish a bona fide triable defence in a summary debt suit; default judgment entered and costs awarded.
Civil Procedure – summary suit – Order 36 leave to appear and defend – bona fide triable issue required; sham defences; guarantor liability – demand notice under Mortgage Act inapplicable to salary loans; default judgment under Order 36 rule 5; costs follow the event.
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16 December 2025 |
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Petition alleging unfair prejudice dismissed where articles allowed transfers, prejudice not proved and claims were time‑barred.
Company law – unfair prejudice under section 244 – effect of articles of association on transfer rights – pre‑emptive rights not implied – limitation and acquiescence as bar to stale claims – failure to prove lack of accounts or prejudicial conduct.
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16 December 2025 |
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Court ordered reversal of UGX 300,000,000 to applicant after finding breach, absconding, and failure of consideration.
Banking and contract law — recovery of deposit paid to third party; contract by conduct and WhatsApp communications; failure of consideration/unjust enrichment; court’s inherent powers under section 98 Civil Procedure Act to order fund reversal; substituted service and uncontroverted affidavit evidence.
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15 December 2025 |
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Applicant failed to prove recruiter liability for migrant’s death after she absconded; application dismissed with costs.
Human rights enforcement – Migrant worker externalisation – Locus standi under Article 50 – Recruiter liability after worker absconds – Right to life and access to information – Causation and remedies – Repatriation and damages.
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15 December 2025 |
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Application to compel transfer under a 1960 succession certificate dismissed as time-barred, lacking cause and overlapping a pending constitutional petition.
Succession certificates – Limitation of actions – Succession Registers – Administrator General’s powers – Letters of Administration – Estates already administered – Pending constitutional petition affecting Respondent’s authority.
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15 December 2025 |
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Discovery of a document after judgment does not justify review absent proof of due diligence to produce it earlier.
Civil Procedure — Review — Order 46 Rule 1(b) — Discovery of new and important matter of evidence — Requirement of due diligence — Evidence peculiarly within applicant’s knowledge — Exhaustion of remedies under Electoral Commission Act — Application dismissed.
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2 December 2025 |
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Court quashed party’s forwarded primary result for procedural impropriety and ordered substitution of the candidate by the electoral commission.
Public law – political party internal elections – judicial review – exhaustion of internal remedies – procedural impropriety, illegality and irrationality in electoral decision-making – prerogative orders (certiorari) – substitution of candidate by electoral commission.
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2 December 2025 |